'If you find money while doing the laundry, it's yours to keep': Amusing Redditors Share Ridiculous Household Rules That Everyone Should Follow

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 18, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Every household has its rules. Some make sense, some make absolutely no sense, but as children, we all had to follow them. Now, as an adult, I slowly see how my parents' rules have affected how I maintain my own household, and I now fully expect my future children to follow the rules I collect along the way.

Those rules can be extremely helpful, like creating a chores dividing system and sticking to it, but they can also be silly and unhinged, like having to kiss the cat on the head before you leave the house for the day. And to be completely honest with you, these two rules are equally important to me. 

Reading through the comments to this AskReddit – 'What's an unwritten rule in your household?', I realized how different each and every one of us grew up, and how unique every household is. With so many helpful and ridiculous rules, I truly believe I might implement some of these crazy comments with my future family.

Scroll down to enjoy these answers yourselves. After you are done, click here for a story of a woman who decided to get married to a video game character.

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  • 01
    What's an unwritten rule in your household that would seem bizarre to outsiders?
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    WeirdBogWitch - 17 hr. ago If someone is voluntarily doing a chore, no one shall tell them how to do it differently unless damage is going to be incurred. If unsolicited advice is given without the intent to actively roll up sleeves and help, the task then belongs to the giver of the unsolicited advice.
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    Tinyfishy 16 hr. ago • When someone shows you the eggs the chickens laid today, you mist admire them and say 'eggknowledged'.
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    weenie2323. 17 hr. ago If you have a cat on your lap and want something from the kitchen someone else has to get it for you. Cat must not be disturbed.
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    weenie2323. 17 hr. ago I'd add we had as many as 7 cats at a time growing up so often everyone had a cat on their lap so the youngest cat would be the one chosen to be moved. Senior cats had great privilege.
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    • TheEggieQueen · 16 hr. ago My husband and I have a large mug that says "as I suspected I was right". When one of us has an "I told you so moment" the other says "you get the mug tonight". We love the laughs we have when one of us turns the corner with that big mug lookin smug while the other has a regular "pity" mug haha
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    cszack4.17 hr. ago Winner of a board game is charged with putting said game away.
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    TrademarkHomy · 16 hr. ago My family did this too! It's a great way to minimize competion drama because the winner gets to gloat about winning while tidying up and the rest get to gloat about not having to tidy up.
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    • AngellQueenn · 17 hr. ago If you find money in the laundry while you are doing the laundry, it's yours.
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    Shytemagnet. 16 hr. ago If you tell me you can't find something after I've told you EXACTLY WHERE IT IS, and I walk over there and find it EXACTLY WHERE I TOLD YOU IT WAS, I get to hit you with it.
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    • Leeloo_Len · 16 hr. ago If a cat meows at you, you meow back. It's impolite not to answer.
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    Famous_Excuse4803 17 hr. ago If you get ice from the freezer for whatever reason, you must pay the ice tax to the dogs.
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    BarbieeBee · 17 hr. ago Replacing the trash bag IS PART OF taking out the trash
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    LeopardSpotDesign · 14 hr. ago The loud noise and I'm ok rules. If you know you're going to make a loud noise, say dropping a heavy bag down the stairs you had to yell "loud noise" to warn everyone that the noise was coming and planned
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    If you made a loud noise unplanned you had to yell "I'm OK" so no one came running or did come running I'd you were NOT ok. Side note this rule was created when grandpa dropped a toilet on his finger.
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    redcoat 17 hr. ago If someone drops something everyone else has to tell them "you dropped something" so they know you know. Also. If someone walks into something: "there's something there"
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    chachfinley 15 hr. ago When removing eggs from the carton, all remaining eggs must be arranged symmetrically. A pattern is preferred.
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    KelMel8417 15 hr. ago When you use the last paper towel from the roll you have to take the cardboard tube and yell "do-ta-do" in it and then give it to the dog when he comes running so he can shred it!
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    mouaragon. 16 hr. ago This is at my mom's place. If you are wearing long sleeve shirts you are exempt from doing the dishes.
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    • sixsmalldogs 17 hr. ago We mute all tv commercials.
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    RoboNikki 14 hr. ago When we don't feel like cleaning the kitchen entirely after dinner or we leave junk in the living room, whatever the case may be, we're obligated to declare "who closed last night!?" And then we blame it on the baby.
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    purpleplazas · 17 hr. ago Wash your hands upon getting home. The outside world be nasty.
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    2 bispecsual 16 hr. ago • Sometimes, my cat will carry a ball toy into the room and meow loudly. As soon as she drops the ball, every human in the house must clap and go "Yaaayy!!" It is law.
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    Purplepunkkk. 17 hr. ago In our household, the unwritten rule is that you must perform a full interpretive dance routine to earn the right to use the TV remote. It keeps the peace and provides nightly entertainment
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    Inevitable_Kick_5014 OP. 18 hr. ago for us, the dog gets greeted before any human. no exceptions.
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